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Two lucky Illinois Wesleyan
University students got a taste of a
different climate last month. The
Residence Hall Association spon-sored
a Suitcase Social where stu-dents
could dance the night away
and win fabulous prizes at the
same time.
The grand prize turned out to
be a weekend for two in Walt
Disney World. After receiving an
award at an annual conference of
the Great Lakes Association of
College and University Residence
Halls, the IWU RHA is up for a
national award honoring excel-lence
in programming.
“The Suitcase Social was an
event that Associate Dean of
Students Darcy Greder had coor-dinated
several years ago. I start-ed
thinking about how exciting it
would be to bring it back, so Alex
Dorow, our conference coordina-tor,
and I worked on plans all
summer long,” said Bridget
O'Connor, current president of the
RHA. “It was really successful
this year, and I think the only
major thing we will be changing
for next year is the trip's destina-tion.”
Students received information
cards through campus mail in
early October. A portion of the
student activity fee was used to
cover event costs, so the program
was geared towards students
residing in university-owned resi-dence
halls. But students living in
Greek chapter houses or at off-campus
locations were encour-aged
to attend the social, win raf-fle
prizes and partner with friends
who lived in residence halls.
“We wanted to open up the
event to the whole campus, but
we had to give students who had
paid the activity fee first priority.
We're really working on including
students from across the campus
in our activities,” O'Connor said.
The actual social was held in
the Hansen Student Center on
Nov. 5. Everyone came with their
suitcases packed. Winners were
not allowed to return to their
rooms, so participants had to
bring anything they thought they
might need for a weekend within
the contiguous United States.
Throughout the night, students
were given clues about the trip's
destination and those who
guessed it correctly were entered
in a special drawing.
The night also included a limbo
contest and the opportunity to win
nearly a dozen raffle prizes,
including gift certificates to local
restaurants, a DVD player, and
other merchandise from local
retailers.
O'Connor said, “We're definite-ly
going to do the limbo contest
sooner next year. It really got
people dancing.”
As the event ended, coordina-tors
randomly picked one of the
registration forms out of all that
were submitted. IWU first-year
students Robyn Swink and
Krystyna Zwolinski were the
lucky winners. Acab immediate-ly
took the two girls to the Hilton
in Chicago. They took off for
Orlando the next morning.
“We didn't waste a second of
our time in Florida,” Zwolinski
said.
Housed at Disney's
Contemporary Resort, the girls
had unlimited access to theme
parks and events. Meals were
arranged, so they had ample time
to explore.
Zwolinski said, “We stayed up
pretty much all night going to
Magic Kingdom and Pleasure
Island. Then, we spent all Sunday
morning seeing different parks
before our flight left.” The girls
arrived back in Bloomington on
Sunday night in time for Monday
classes.
Robyn Swink highly recom-mended
the activity to fellow stu-dents.
“You should definitely try
it out next year,” she said.
O'Connor agreed. “We're
focused on preparing our presen-tation
for nationals, but plans are
already underway for next fall.
Come check it out in 2005!”
Illinois Wesleyan University
Associate Professor of Political
Science James Simeone and
Professor of Sociology James
Sikora are taking their students
out of the classroom and into the
community.
Through the Action Research
Center, established in 2003 by
Simeone and Sikora, these stu-dents
will take part in a variety
of service projects. These pro-fessors
wanted to apply the
material the students were learn-ing
in the class to real problems
in the community.
The Action Research Center
has three parts - a one-semester
seminar, an internship and an
independent study project. The
seminar is a cross-listed 300
level political science and soci-ology
elective. After that initial
seminar, the student can do the
internship and the study project
within their major if they desire.
The Action Research Center is
open to any student that is seri-ous
about it, wants to join and
has at least one social science
credit.
Sikora said, “Professor
Simeone and I want to encour-age
more students to get off
campus to work with the com-munity
on long-term projects.”
The purpose of this program
is to allow the students to apply
what they have learned in class
to the real world with actual
problems in the community.
The students work as a team
and are paired with community
partners. These students learn to
be process-oriented, understand
frustration, be leaders, and to
not rely on community partners
for everything.
“They must be comfortable
with the uncomfortable,” Sikora
said.
Projects in the program are
wide-ranging, from rural areas
into the cities. There are nine
community organizations the
With final exams just around
the corner, IWU students may
not be hearing sleigh bells ring
or spinning dreidels. But many
organizations on campus are
ensuring that students have the
opportunity to enjoy the many
winter holidays that are cele-brated
during December.
Multicultural student groups
use the holiday season to
expose the campus to diverse
customs and traditions. Last
Tuesday night, the Chaplain's
Office and Hillel, the Jewish
student organization on campus,
sponsored a Hanukkah celebra-tion
in the Main Lounge.
Members of Hillel read tradi-tional
stories, and those who
attended were treated to a din-ner
of beef brisket, potato pan-cakes,
applesauce, cranberries
and baby carrots with cinna-mon.
An annual tradition on
IWU's campus for the last nine
years, the Hanukkah celebration
usually draws a crowd of nearly
50.
Chaplain Dennis Groh said,
“The food is excellent, and it's a
great opportunity for students to
become familiar with other reli-gious
traditions. Due to the
media's focus on Christmas,
other major celebrations don't
get the spotlight they deserve.”
Student Welfare and Human
Relations commissioner Alyssa
Stone emphasized how diverse
events are during the holiday
season.
“Almost every group on
campus plans something for the
holidays,” she said.
The Chaplain's office
attempts to offer events to suit
many different students' needs.
On Wednesday, student
groups came together for a
Kwanzaa celebration complete
with drumming and dancing as
well as another excellent meal.
The annual IWU Christmas ser-vice
took place on Wednesday
morning and featured music by
the Chapel Choir, a perfor-mance
by “Suspended,” one of
the student-led ensembles on
campus, and several student
soloists.
Luckily, for students who
missed out on these events,
there is still one final event this
semester. Local clergy mem-bers
will come together for an
Advent communion service this
Friday at 11:00 p.m. in Evelyn
Chapel. The service will fea-ture
plenty of music from cam-pus
entertainers.
Chaplain Groh reminded
everyone, “Just come as you
are. Take a break from studying
and come meet some local reli-gious
figures.”
For students who won't be
leaving their residence halls
because of papers and other pro-jects,
the residential life staff
members offer many opportuni-ties
for involvement. Martin
Hall sponsored a Christmas
party last weekend, while sever-al
first year dorms will have
Hanukkah and Kwanzaa events.
Also, most upper class halls
plan some kind of finals time
holiday programming.
Students who are already in
the holiday spirit are in demand
this coming weekend.
Nonperishable items can be
donated to Sodexho's Caring
Cans campaign until Christmas
break. Alpha Phi Omega mem-bers
will be wrapping presents
in CNS on reading day for char-itable
donations. The
Residence Hall Association will
also be fundraising at Barnes
and Noble this weekend.
After months of anticipation,
a date has been set for President
Wilson's inauguration.
Although Wilson told the fac-ulty
his ideas for the inaugura-tion
schedule prior to the first
day of classes, a campus-wide
announcement was not made
until Nov. 3. The reason for this
delay was to confirm a date that
would not interfere with previ-ously
scheduled activities. The
confirmed date for the inaugura-tion
ceremony is April 9, 2005.
The inauguration will consist
of three days of activities that
lead up to the Saturday after-noon
ceremony. A committee
made up of faculty, students,
staff, alumni and trustees is cur-rently
planning the many activi-ties
that will lead up to the night
of the inauguration.
President Wilson
does not just want
this time to be a cel-ebration
of himself.
Instead, he wants to
celebrate the accom-plishments
of
Illinois Wesleyan
University and the
role of a liberal arts
education.
“This is an appro-priate
approach to
this most important
historic occasion and
reflects well on
President Wilson's leadership,”
Craig Hart, honorary chair of
the inaugural committee and
president of the board of
trustees, said.
Richard Wilson assumed the
presidency of Illinois Wesleyan
on July 1 of this
year. Since then, he
has been getting
acquainted with the
faculty, students,
and staff and famil-iarizing
himself
with the many
aspects of Illinois
Wesleyan's campus
community.
Besides meet-ing
with department
chairs, program
directors and vari-ous
student organi-zations,
President Wilson has
attended alumni connection
events and met with a variety of
IWU's donors.
President Wilson has also
begun planning for the future of
Illinois Wesleyan. He intends to
devote “considerable time to
actually defining specific goals
for the university.” This will
include implementing programs
to meet diversity goals, and pos-sibly
creating a new welcome
center to house the Admissions,
Alumni Relations and Career
Center offices.
These are the accomplish-ments
and goals that will be cel-ebrated
in the spring. Dr. April
Schultz, the chair of the inau-gural
committee, said that it will
be “a three-day event celebrat-ing
Illinois Wesleyan University
in all its facets with the high-light
being the inaugural cere-mony
itself.”
Although nothing is concrete,
the celebration is set to open on
Thursday, April 7, with a panel
of three to four presidents of lib-eral
arts colleges discussing
subjects relevant to the liberal
arts education. On Friday, there
will be an inaugural dinner for
trustees, delegates, and the inau-gural
committee as well as a
student-run event in the Hansen
Student Center.
Saturday will be the inaugura-tion
itself at 2:00 p.m. at the
Shirk Center. The ceremony
will include Illinois Wesleyan
musical performances and poet-ry
readings. In place of a single
speech, there will be various
greetings from the board of
trustees, staff, students, alumni,
the mayors of both
Bloomington and Normal, and
others.
The ceremony will be fol-lowed
by a reception with food
and musical performances.
Shultz hopes to include acts
from the community as well as
Illinois Wesleyan. There will
also be an informal celebration
from 7 to 11 p.m. in the Main
Lounge of the Memorial Center
featuring a variety of perform-ers.
In addition to these inaugura-tion
specific events, there will
also be previously scheduled
events incorporated into the cel-ebration.
These include perfor-mances
by the Illinois Wesleyan
Chamber Singers and Jazz
Band, the senior art show, and
the Blue Moon Coffeehouse on
Saturday featuring folk singer
John Gorka.
SPORTS, PAGE 10
Women’s basketball
continues streak Finals horror stories
First Class
Permit 30
THEARGUS Illinois Wesleyan University
A
DECEMBER 10, 2004
VOLUME 111 ISSUE 12 FEATURES, PAGE 7
Inauguration date set for President Wilson
We’ve made our list
and checked it twice
OP/ED, PAGE 4
Weekend We a t h e r
Sunday
High: 44 Low: 35
AM clouds, PM sun
Courtesy of www.weather.com
High: 50 Low: 28
Few showers
E R I C J O H N S O N
S TA F F W R I T E R
RHA’s grand prize: trip
for two to Disney World
Saturday
Students find diversity
in holiday celebrations
First-year students Krystyna Zwolinski and Robyn Swink reminisce about their weekend in
Florida. The roommates won the trip during RHA’s Suitcase Social last month.
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S TA F F W R I T E R
H A N N A H G I U N TA
S TA F F W R I T E R
R I C H A R D
F . W I L S O N
H A N N A H G I U N TA
S TA F F W R I T E R
Program allows
student action in
B-N community
A drummer performs during Wednesday night’s Kwanzaa cele-bration
in the Main Lounge.
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Two lucky Illinois Wesleyan
University students got a taste of a
different climate last month. The
Residence Hall Association spon-sored
a Suitcase Social where stu-dents
could dance the night away
and win fabulous prizes at the
same time.
The grand prize turned out to
be a weekend for two in Walt
Disney World. After receiving an
award at an annual conference of
the Great Lakes Association of
College and University Residence
Halls, the IWU RHA is up for a
national award honoring excel-lence
in programming.
“The Suitcase Social was an
event that Associate Dean of
Students Darcy Greder had coor-dinated
several years ago. I start-ed
thinking about how exciting it
would be to bring it back, so Alex
Dorow, our conference coordina-tor,
and I worked on plans all
summer long,” said Bridget
O'Connor, current president of the
RHA. “It was really successful
this year, and I think the only
major thing we will be changing
for next year is the trip's destina-tion.”
Students received information
cards through campus mail in
early October. A portion of the
student activity fee was used to
cover event costs, so the program
was geared towards students
residing in university-owned resi-dence
halls. But students living in
Greek chapter houses or at off-campus
locations were encour-aged
to attend the social, win raf-fle
prizes and partner with friends
who lived in residence halls.
“We wanted to open up the
event to the whole campus, but
we had to give students who had
paid the activity fee first priority.
We're really working on including
students from across the campus
in our activities,” O'Connor said.
The actual social was held in
the Hansen Student Center on
Nov. 5. Everyone came with their
suitcases packed. Winners were
not allowed to return to their
rooms, so participants had to
bring anything they thought they
might need for a weekend within
the contiguous United States.
Throughout the night, students
were given clues about the trip's
destination and those who
guessed it correctly were entered
in a special drawing.
The night also included a limbo
contest and the opportunity to win
nearly a dozen raffle prizes,
including gift certificates to local
restaurants, a DVD player, and
other merchandise from local
retailers.
O'Connor said, “We're definite-ly
going to do the limbo contest
sooner next year. It really got
people dancing.”
As the event ended, coordina-tors
randomly picked one of the
registration forms out of all that
were submitted. IWU first-year
students Robyn Swink and
Krystyna Zwolinski were the
lucky winners. Acab immediate-ly
took the two girls to the Hilton
in Chicago. They took off for
Orlando the next morning.
“We didn't waste a second of
our time in Florida,” Zwolinski
said.
Housed at Disney's
Contemporary Resort, the girls
had unlimited access to theme
parks and events. Meals were
arranged, so they had ample time
to explore.
Zwolinski said, “We stayed up
pretty much all night going to
Magic Kingdom and Pleasure
Island. Then, we spent all Sunday
morning seeing different parks
before our flight left.” The girls
arrived back in Bloomington on
Sunday night in time for Monday
classes.
Robyn Swink highly recom-mended
the activity to fellow stu-dents.
“You should definitely try
it out next year,” she said.
O'Connor agreed. “We're
focused on preparing our presen-tation
for nationals, but plans are
already underway for next fall.
Come check it out in 2005!”
Illinois Wesleyan University
Associate Professor of Political
Science James Simeone and
Professor of Sociology James
Sikora are taking their students
out of the classroom and into the
community.
Through the Action Research
Center, established in 2003 by
Simeone and Sikora, these stu-dents
will take part in a variety
of service projects. These pro-fessors
wanted to apply the
material the students were learn-ing
in the class to real problems
in the community.
The Action Research Center
has three parts - a one-semester
seminar, an internship and an
independent study project. The
seminar is a cross-listed 300
level political science and soci-ology
elective. After that initial
seminar, the student can do the
internship and the study project
within their major if they desire.
The Action Research Center is
open to any student that is seri-ous
about it, wants to join and
has at least one social science
credit.
Sikora said, “Professor
Simeone and I want to encour-age
more students to get off
campus to work with the com-munity
on long-term projects.”
The purpose of this program
is to allow the students to apply
what they have learned in class
to the real world with actual
problems in the community.
The students work as a team
and are paired with community
partners. These students learn to
be process-oriented, understand
frustration, be leaders, and to
not rely on community partners
for everything.
“They must be comfortable
with the uncomfortable,” Sikora
said.
Projects in the program are
wide-ranging, from rural areas
into the cities. There are nine
community organizations the
With final exams just around
the corner, IWU students may
not be hearing sleigh bells ring
or spinning dreidels. But many
organizations on campus are
ensuring that students have the
opportunity to enjoy the many
winter holidays that are cele-brated
during December.
Multicultural student groups
use the holiday season to
expose the campus to diverse
customs and traditions. Last
Tuesday night, the Chaplain's
Office and Hillel, the Jewish
student organization on campus,
sponsored a Hanukkah celebra-tion
in the Main Lounge.
Members of Hillel read tradi-tional
stories, and those who
attended were treated to a din-ner
of beef brisket, potato pan-cakes,
applesauce, cranberries
and baby carrots with cinna-mon.
An annual tradition on
IWU's campus for the last nine
years, the Hanukkah celebration
usually draws a crowd of nearly
50.
Chaplain Dennis Groh said,
“The food is excellent, and it's a
great opportunity for students to
become familiar with other reli-gious
traditions. Due to the
media's focus on Christmas,
other major celebrations don't
get the spotlight they deserve.”
Student Welfare and Human
Relations commissioner Alyssa
Stone emphasized how diverse
events are during the holiday
season.
“Almost every group on
campus plans something for the
holidays,” she said.
The Chaplain's office
attempts to offer events to suit
many different students' needs.
On Wednesday, student
groups came together for a
Kwanzaa celebration complete
with drumming and dancing as
well as another excellent meal.
The annual IWU Christmas ser-vice
took place on Wednesday
morning and featured music by
the Chapel Choir, a perfor-mance
by “Suspended,” one of
the student-led ensembles on
campus, and several student
soloists.
Luckily, for students who
missed out on these events,
there is still one final event this
semester. Local clergy mem-bers
will come together for an
Advent communion service this
Friday at 11:00 p.m. in Evelyn
Chapel. The service will fea-ture
plenty of music from cam-pus
entertainers.
Chaplain Groh reminded
everyone, “Just come as you
are. Take a break from studying
and come meet some local reli-gious
figures.”
For students who won't be
leaving their residence halls
because of papers and other pro-jects,
the residential life staff
members offer many opportuni-ties
for involvement. Martin
Hall sponsored a Christmas
party last weekend, while sever-al
first year dorms will have
Hanukkah and Kwanzaa events.
Also, most upper class halls
plan some kind of finals time
holiday programming.
Students who are already in
the holiday spirit are in demand
this coming weekend.
Nonperishable items can be
donated to Sodexho's Caring
Cans campaign until Christmas
break. Alpha Phi Omega mem-bers
will be wrapping presents
in CNS on reading day for char-itable
donations. The
Residence Hall Association will
also be fundraising at Barnes
and Noble this weekend.
After months of anticipation,
a date has been set for President
Wilson's inauguration.
Although Wilson told the fac-ulty
his ideas for the inaugura-tion
schedule prior to the first
day of classes, a campus-wide
announcement was not made
until Nov. 3. The reason for this
delay was to confirm a date that
would not interfere with previ-ously
scheduled activities. The
confirmed date for the inaugura-tion
ceremony is April 9, 2005.
The inauguration will consist
of three days of activities that
lead up to the Saturday after-noon
ceremony. A committee
made up of faculty, students,
staff, alumni and trustees is cur-rently
planning the many activi-ties
that will lead up to the night
of the inauguration.
President Wilson
does not just want
this time to be a cel-ebration
of himself.
Instead, he wants to
celebrate the accom-plishments
of
Illinois Wesleyan
University and the
role of a liberal arts
education.
“This is an appro-priate
approach to
this most important
historic occasion and
reflects well on
President Wilson's leadership,”
Craig Hart, honorary chair of
the inaugural committee and
president of the board of
trustees, said.
Richard Wilson assumed the
presidency of Illinois Wesleyan
on July 1 of this
year. Since then, he
has been getting
acquainted with the
faculty, students,
and staff and famil-iarizing
himself
with the many
aspects of Illinois
Wesleyan's campus
community.
Besides meet-ing
with department
chairs, program
directors and vari-ous
student organi-zations,
President Wilson has
attended alumni connection
events and met with a variety of
IWU's donors.
President Wilson has also
begun planning for the future of
Illinois Wesleyan. He intends to
devote “considerable time to
actually defining specific goals
for the university.” This will
include implementing programs
to meet diversity goals, and pos-sibly
creating a new welcome
center to house the Admissions,
Alumni Relations and Career
Center offices.
These are the accomplish-ments
and goals that will be cel-ebrated
in the spring. Dr. April
Schultz, the chair of the inau-gural
committee, said that it will
be “a three-day event celebrat-ing
Illinois Wesleyan University
in all its facets with the high-light
being the inaugural cere-mony
itself.”
Although nothing is concrete,
the celebration is set to open on
Thursday, April 7, with a panel
of three to four presidents of lib-eral
arts colleges discussing
subjects relevant to the liberal
arts education. On Friday, there
will be an inaugural dinner for
trustees, delegates, and the inau-gural
committee as well as a
student-run event in the Hansen
Student Center.
Saturday will be the inaugura-tion
itself at 2:00 p.m. at the
Shirk Center. The ceremony
will include Illinois Wesleyan
musical performances and poet-ry
readings. In place of a single
speech, there will be various
greetings from the board of
trustees, staff, students, alumni,
the mayors of both
Bloomington and Normal, and
others.
The ceremony will be fol-lowed
by a reception with food
and musical performances.
Shultz hopes to include acts
from the community as well as
Illinois Wesleyan. There will
also be an informal celebration
from 7 to 11 p.m. in the Main
Lounge of the Memorial Center
featuring a variety of perform-ers.
In addition to these inaugura-tion
specific events, there will
also be previously scheduled
events incorporated into the cel-ebration.
These include perfor-mances
by the Illinois Wesleyan
Chamber Singers and Jazz
Band, the senior art show, and
the Blue Moon Coffeehouse on
Saturday featuring folk singer
John Gorka.
SPORTS, PAGE 10
Women’s basketball
continues streak Finals horror stories
First Class
Permit 30
THEARGUS Illinois Wesleyan University
A
DECEMBER 10, 2004
VOLUME 111 ISSUE 12 FEATURES, PAGE 7
Inauguration date set for President Wilson
We’ve made our list
and checked it twice
OP/ED, PAGE 4
Weekend We a t h e r
Sunday
High: 44 Low: 35
AM clouds, PM sun
Courtesy of www.weather.com
High: 50 Low: 28
Few showers
E R I C J O H N S O N
S TA F F W R I T E R
RHA’s grand prize: trip
for two to Disney World
Saturday
Students find diversity
in holiday celebrations
First-year students Krystyna Zwolinski and Robyn Swink reminisce about their weekend in
Florida. The roommates won the trip during RHA’s Suitcase Social last month.
ABBY MOHAUPT/THE ARGUS
L E Z L I C R O N E
S TA F F W R I T E R
H A N N A H G I U N TA
S TA F F W R I T E R
R I C H A R D
F . W I L S O N
H A N N A H G I U N TA
S TA F F W R I T E R
Program allows
student action in
B-N community
A drummer performs during Wednesday night’s Kwanzaa cele-bration
in the Main Lounge.
NATALIE PAWLUK/THE ARGUS
seeACTION RESEARCH p.2